Other readers will say that he was a complete lunatic, incapable of dealing with the problems that he himself had caused. Some readers will find Victor to be an excellent scientist, who transgresses boundaries without fear and manages to create something that nobody had created ever before. The story shows that by playing God you can destroy your own life and the lives of your beloved ones. Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein is for sure one of the greatest novels ever written, and one of those that you must not skip. He has not the slightest idea that this powerful creature will destroy not only his life but also the lives of the people he love the most. Victor decides to create a grotesque monster that soon becomes his great foe. The story concerns Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who joins a university in order to study chemistry and philosophy. It was written by the brilliant Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. I hate that I can’t hold this up as a peerless jewel of early science fiction by a female author, but in good conscience, I can’t recommend this book broadly.Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus is one of the most famous novels in the world. I find it very hard to recommend as something other than an exercise in form for those who want to know where later works draw their inspiration from. We really have moved on from this book as a society. We may get a joke or two about recycling, and one or more of my relatives may chip in about how they might be eyeing off my liver, but that’s about it. I can say that, and no-one is shocked or offended or scandalized. I’m not shocked at all by the grave robbing and tying bits of people together in this novel, indeed I have volunteered to have it done to myself once I’m done with my various bits of gibblet. Let me give you an example: I’m listed as an organ donor. The pace is slow, and the philosophical issues which were so shocking and exciting back at publication are now little more than curios. I understand that it is a character study of the doctor, rather than a monster movie, but I didn’t find his character as engrossing as it needs to be to draw the reader along. (Introduction by Wikipedia)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit.
In telling his story to the captain, Frankenstein finds peace within himself. Before beginning his story, Frankenstein warns Walton of the wretched effects of allowing ambition to push one to aim beyond what one is capable of achieving. Frankenstein starts to recover from his exertion and recounts his story to Walton. He had broken apart his dog sled to make oars and rowed an ice-raft toward the vessel. Frankenstein had been in pursuit of the gigantic man observed by Walton's crew when all but one of his dogs died.
Hours later, the crew finds a frozen and emaciated man, Victor Frankenstein, in desperate need of sustenance. The ship becomes trapped in ice, and, one day, the crew sees a dog sled in the distance, on which there is the figure of a giant man. Walton sets out to explore the North Pole and expand his scientific knowledge in hopes of achieving fame and friendship. LibriVox recording of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley.įrankenstein begins in epistolary form, documenting the correspondence between Captain Robert Walton and his sister, Margaret Walton Saville.
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